[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Changelog/ReleaseNotes: prepare for 2.4

[Clément Bœsch]

On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 09:29:26AM +0200, Andreas Cadhalpun wrote:
> On 14.09.2014 08:33, Clément Bœsch wrote:
> >From: Clément Bœsch <clement at stupeflix.com>
> >
> >---
> >  Changelog     |  2 +-
> >  RELEASE_NOTES | 19 ++++++++++++++-----
> >  2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> >
> >diff --git a/Changelog b/Changelog
> >index c5185f7..480a298 100644
> >--- a/Changelog
> >+++ b/Changelog
> >@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ version <next>:
> >  - Icecast protocol
> >  - ported lenscorrection filter from frei0r filter
> >  - large optimizations in dctdnoiz to make it usable
> >-- request Icecast metadata by default
> >+- ICY metadata are now requested by default with the HTTP protocol
> >  - support for using metadata in stream specifiers in fftools
> >  - LZMA compression support in TIFF decoder
> >  - support for H.261 RTP payload format (RFC 4587)
> >diff --git a/RELEASE_NOTES b/RELEASE_NOTES
> >index a8b19c5..b3b7f7b 100644
> >--- a/RELEASE_NOTES
> >+++ b/RELEASE_NOTES
> >@@ -2,13 +2,18 @@
> >   │ RELEASE NOTES for FFmpeg 2.4 "Fresnel" │
> >   └────────────────────────────────────────┘
> >
> >-   The FFmpeg Project proudly presents FFmpeg 2.4 "Fresnel", ...
> >-   FFmpeg 2.4 is mostly API-, but not ABI-compatible with the previous major release.
> >-   This means that the code using our libraries needs to be rebuilt, but only minimal
> >-   source changes should be required, as described in the section 'API Information'.
> >+   The FFmpeg Project proudly presents FFmpeg 2.4 "Fresnel", just 2 months
> >+   after the release of 2.3. Since this wasn't a long time ago, the Changelog
> >+   is a bit small this time.
> 
> I think 'a bit short' would sound better.
> 
> >+   The most important thing in this release is the major bump of the libraries.
> 
> Maybe expand that to 'major version bump'.
> 
> >+   This means that this release is not ABI-compatible nor exactly API-
> 
> 'neither ABI-compatible nor'
> 
> And I would replace 'exactly' with 'fully', because it is otherwise not
> exactly unambiguous. ;)
> 
> >+   compatible. But on the other hand it is aligned with the Libav 11 release
> >+   series, and will as a result probably end up being maintained for a long
> >+   time.
> >
> >     ┌────────────────────────────┐
> >-   │ *  API Information         │
> >+   │ ��  API Information         │
> >     └────────────────────────────┘
> >
> >       FFmpeg 2.4 includes the following library versions:
> >@@ -28,6 +33,7 @@
> >           cause crashes, if it is not initialized.
> >         • Some deprecated functions were removed.
> >         • The avfilter_graph_parse function was made compatible with Libav.
> >+       • The matroska demuxer now outputs verbatim ASS packets
>                                                                  ^
> There should be a dot at the end.
> 
> >       Please refer to the doc/APIChanges file for more information.
>                                     ^
> You didn't change this line, but there is a typo, as the file is called
> APIchanges with lower-case 'c'.
> 
> >@@ -41,6 +47,8 @@
> >
> >      • Icecast protocol
> >      • API for live metadata updates through event flags.
>                                                            ^
> This dot is inconsistent with the other points in this list.
> 
> >+    • UTF-16 support in text subtitles formats
> >+    • the ASS muxer now honor re-order the Dialogue events properly
> >
> >     ┌────────────────────────────┐
> >     │ libavfilter                │
> >@@ -66,3 +74,4 @@
> >    • libmodplug is now detected through pkg-config
> >    • HTML documentation generation through texi2html is deprecated in
> >      favor of makeinfo/texi2any
> >+  • ICY metadata are now requested by default with the HTTP protocol
> 
> Otherwise looks good.
> 

Thank you; applied with those changes, and a bit more.

> Best regards,
> Andreas
> 

-- 
Clément B.
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